Leader Arshvant Srivastava of India blazed the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club with the day’s greatest card of 3-under 69 within the Boys 13-14 age class on the opening day of US Kids Malaysian Championships right here.

It was a positive opening day for the seven-member Indian squad. While Arshvant led his group, 4 different Indians have been in Top-3 after the primary day of the three-day occasion which carries WAGR factors and grants precedence factors for entry into US Kids World Championships and European Championships later within the yr.

The 14-year-old Arshvant, whose coach Amit Dubey was with him, shot 69 with 5 birdies towards two bogeys, the second of which got here on the difficult 18th gap on the 6,256-yard course. Arshvant birdied second, sixth, ninth, thirteenth and the seventeenth, whereas he dropped pictures on eighth and 18th.

Srivastava led two Korean boys Woosung Sun (73) and Geon Kang (74) by 4 and 5 pictures respectively.

Two different Indians, Sohang Har Kantor (79) and Ved Sai Machiraju (85) have been T-7 and T-14 respectively.

Divjot Gupta (40) was mendacity second behind Clifton Michael Lumy of Indonesia (39) whereas one other Indian Ruslaan Alam Khan (44) was third in Boys 8 and Under class.

Jot Sarup Gupta (77) was 4 pictures behind chief Aaron Zhang of China (73) in Boys 10 and below.

In the Girls 13-14 class Kriti Parekh was mendacity second with a spherical of 83 and the chief was Wang Enxi (76).

A complete of 106 junior golfers from 16 international locations, together with 37 gamers from Malaysia, are competing within the three-day match.

The US Kids Malaysian Championships is the primary regional Nationals below the US Kids umbrella in Asia this yr. It can be adopted by extra such occasions in Thailand, Singapore and India.

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